From: Jim Lai (jiml@falcon.teleride.on.ca)
Date: Tue 05 Jul 1994 - 12:08:00 EEST
|From: alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk (alex)
|Subject: Use Your Illusion III
|X-RQ-ID: 5014
Alex muses on reality:
|> >Can belief create reality in Glorantha?
|
|> Yes: Illusion.
|
|Leading to thorny questions such as: Is Illusion Reality?; and Is Illusion
|Caused By Belief?
Just ask a pseudodragon if it thinks it's real. Maybe the Illusion rune is really the Dream rune (or Reality rune). (And no, I'm not going to attempt to model the Sandman/Endless pantheon using runes.) Maybe Illusion is what the Trickster replaced Humakt's sword with. Maybe all the runes are merely Illusion.
|From: NDROBINS@NDROBINS.FIN.GOV.BC.CA
|Subject: GLs, Runes and the Monomyth
|X-RQ-ID: 5019
|
|Neil Robinson here:
|The GLs attempted to
|explain and control Glorantha through the MM and Runes - merging
|Gods and cultures, and altering their powers by forcing them to act
|through fixed Runic patterns. Now had the GLs been completely successful,
|then the MM and the Runes would be the only way that Glorantha could
|be viewed. Unlike Earth, where mathematics and physics only model our
|world, Glorantha is completed malleable through belief, [...]
If we assume that Glorantha is a dream, then their intervention may have disturbed the course of the dream too greatly, thus earning the emnity of those who would want the dream to continue. And so the dream changed...
|It shows why the GLs were so dangerous, and so strongly resisted
|by the Gods, and Glorantha itself. Heck, maybe that's what happened
|to Earth. It was a Glorantha-like entity where the GLs won (and here
|we are).
My impression is that the GLs attempted to create a magical technology of sorts. Mostal no doubt was amused. Imagine creating a new deity with the runes Statis, Movement/Change, Power/Pamalt... the god of Carnot engines!
|This all comes back to the basic question. Can we use runes to
|detail Glorantha, or the Monomyth to describe the deities. Yes they
|work as general tools, but fall down when you try to get into the
|gritty details.
Here's an even worse model: Glorantha is like a Shadow in Zelazny's Amber universe. The Godtime corresponds to the True World. Gods are power sources in Shadow. Spells can be fueled by oneself or external power sources, etc. etc.
A parting shot about KoS: is it possible to conceive of a cult of the Invisible Red Moon after its fall?
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